The current Archives Law of the People's Republic of China shows the obvious legal mark of the early 1980's and value cognition. Its legal position focused on archives management not on archive opening-up and utilization, which was proved by the structure and the number of the articles in Chapter Three and Chapter Four of Archives Law. The law over extended the nation's managing scope on archives or the scope of legal archives. And the law brought some archives which were not completely suitable to that scope to the adjustment of Archives Law, such as the archives which were valuable to preserve for the nation and the society owned by the collectivity and the individual. To some extent, it expressed the early legislation over extended. Someone identified the legal nature of Archives Law as the slip law of the administrative law but not one of the main laws of the social information laws that were approved by the scholars in the law circle. Therefore, on the author's opinion, these problems should be considered priorly in the second-round revision of Archives Law.